5. Students: getting in, getting on, getting out

2017 ◽  
pp. 78-96
Author(s):  
David Palfreyman ◽  
Paul Temple
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Student ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Tuition Fees ◽  
Mass System ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Student Relationship ◽  
The University ◽  
Admissions Process

Universities and colleges are, overwhelmingly, about students and in most countries, they are a pretty diverse group, with varying aspirations. ‘Students: getting in, getting on, getting out’ considers the student journey from the admissions process, through induction, to the main part of the student journey involving day-to-day work on the academic programme, assessment, and then moving on to further study or to a graduate job. It asks whether students are partners or customers in the university/college–student relationship and explains how the picture has changed in recent years with the expansion of higher education, moving from an elite system to a mass system, and the introduction of student tuition fees.

The Rise of Student Choice, and the Decline of Academic Autonomy

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Jennie Bristow ◽  
Sarah Cant ◽  
Anwesa Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Student Choice ◽  
Tuition Fees ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Cultural Script ◽  
Gradual Disappearance ◽  
Student Relationship ◽  
The University

This chapter critically evaluates the balance between compulsion and choice in contemporary narratives around the University, as scripted by policy documents and critiqued in the literature. Specifically, it analyses the cultural script of the ‘student- as- consumer’, and its impact on the academic– student relationship. For young people making the decision about whether to go to University, where to go, and what to study, the process is replete with choices – reflecting the landscape laid out in the 2010 Browne Report, which presented the increase in tuition fees as enabling students to benefit from an enhanced range of choices offered by a competitive marketplace. Yet, the study reveals that this choice is limited to decisions about where to go to university rather than deeper considerations about whether to proceed to Higher Education. This reflects tensions within the logics of massification, marketisation and politicisation. The analysis reveals an iterative reconfiguration of the purpose of Higher Education, through the augmentation of the ‘student- as- consumer’ and the gradual disappearance of the academic as central to the work of the University. As such, the chapter argues that deprofessionalisation and waning autonomy are not unintended consequences of policy developments, but critical prerequisites for the situation of Higher Education as the expected next step for increasing proportions of school leavers.

Brevity is the Soul of Wit or Something Else

2020 ◽  
pp. 198-211
Author(s):  
Sheldon Rothblatt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Run Up ◽  
The University

This chapter looks at two works by accomplished and informed scholars. The first book, Universities and Colleges: A Very Short Introduction (2017), is by David Palfreyman and Paul Temple. The second, The Origins of Higher Learning, Knowledge Networks and the Early Development of Universities (2017), is by Roy Lowe and Yoshihito Yasuhara. The Origins of Higher Learning is an account of what may be termed a run-up to the institutionalization of higher learning that occurred in what Charles Homer Haskins called The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (1927), the century in which the university as yet inchoate, is to be found. Meanwhile, Palfreyman and Temple essentially concentrate on the transformation in mission, organisation, and ‘stakeholders’ in the nineteenth century to the present, with particular attention to the provision for ‘higher education’ or ‘tertiary education’ in the United Kingdom (mainly England) and the United States.

Introduction: The Emergence of a ‘Graduate Generation’

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Jennie Bristow ◽  
Sarah Cant ◽  
Anwesa Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Unique Approach ◽  
Student Relationship ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University

This chapter outlines the unique approach taken by this study of the changing academic-student relationship in the context of both massification and the marketisation of British Higher Education. The book explores how the meaning of the ‘University experience’ is produced and interpreted by prospective and current undergraduates, by those working in Higher Education, and by wider networks of family and friends. It considers how the purpose of the University, and the role of students and academics, has been framed by politicians, over successive waves of policy making, and the disjuncture between these narratives and the ways in which those working and studying in Universities articulate what they do and why. By taking a generational perspective, the book considers how discussions about the University today are contextualised by historical experience.

PLANNING OF THE LANDSCAPE DESIGN OF “MULSCOMPLEX”

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
Kh. Munkhtuya ◽  
B Enkhbold
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
State University ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Higher Education Organizations ◽  
The University

There has come an urgent necessity to reconstruct the university building and dormitory on the basis of detailed planning and researches as well as to plan the landscape architecture specifically dedicated to teachers, employees and students step by step according to the standard of higher education organizations. We aim to implement the project taking accounts of not only designs of university campuses in developed countries but also higher education trends in our own country and the mission of Mongolian State University of Agriculture /MULS. The significance of landscape planning is immense. But there is a lack of green environment, convenience, recreation fields, appropriate design etc. at universities and colleges in Mongolia where students, teachers and employees gather in a large number. Therefore, the rationale behind choosing this subject lies in planning and implementing it properly.Mongolian Journal of Agricultural Sciences Vol.13(2) 2014: 66-72

Globalization and Higher Education in Vietnam

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-136
Author(s):  
Thi Kim Quy Nguyen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
University Reform ◽  
Tuition Fees ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
University Leaders ◽  
The University ◽  
Different Parts

With the triumph of the current neo-liberal discourse, many university leaders worldwide have embraced an entrepreneurial model as the answer for change, turning the university from a public good into a commodity. Vietnam, a developing country in Southeast Asia, has become an active participant in this trend. This essay explores how neo-liberal discourse has shaped higher education in both developed and developing countries, with a focus on Vietnam. The expansion in Vietnam of private universities, the introduction of tuition fees, and the corporatization of higher education are all developments associated with trends toward marketization. Given the pervasiveness of globalization and the neo-liberal agenda, serious consequences will follow if the traditional role of the university is sacrificed to the invisible hand of the market. This is confirmed by ongoing trends and outcomes of university reform agendas in different parts of the world, including Vietnam. There is a need to recover the idea of the university as a public good, focusing on academic freedom, autonomy, and human development

scholarly journals The higher education and loyalty: a strategic tool to the retaining of clients

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Fabio Bergamo ◽  
Osvaldo Elias Farah ◽  
Antônio Carlos Giuliani
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Management Area ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Education In Brazil

With the expansion of the higher education in Brazil, the dropout phenomenon has reached a high-level concern among the university managers. In this study, are presented the theoretical bases of the element loyalty, prominence in the management area, in terms of maintenance of the relationship with the customers, applying it to the higher education environment. The characteristics of the student’s loyalty towards the institutions of higher education (known in Portuguese as IES, Instituições de Ensino Superior) are presented and deined, leading to managerial implications that can be relected in the universities and colleges that aim to increase the students’ retention levels.

scholarly journals Diverzitás és inklúzió a felsőoktatásban

Educatio ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-464
Author(s):  
Aranka Varga ◽  
Kitti Vitéz ◽  
István Orsós ◽  
Bálint Fodor ◽  
Gergely Horváth
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Disadvantaged Students ◽  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Socially Disadvantaged ◽  
The University ◽  
Inclusion And Diversity

Összefoglaló. Tanulmányunk hazai és nemzetközi írásokra támaszkodva tisztázza az inklúzió és a diverzitás fogalomkörét. Vizsgáljuk, hogy miként vált a felsőoktatás jellemzőjévé a diverzitás, valamint az inkluzivitás fókuszba kerülése mögött meghúzódó további okokat és következményeket. Kérdőíves kutatásunk arra irányult, hogy a Pécsi Tudományegyetem diverz hallgatói köre (N: 809) mennyire részese az egyetemi közösségi és tudományos életnek, mutatnak-e különbséget a társadalmi hátránnyal küzdők a bevonódásban. Az eredmények rámutattak, hogy a nagy egyetemi programokon a társadalmi hátrányban levők alulreprezentáltak, azonban a szakkollégiumok és egyéb mikroközösségek nagyobb mértékben képesek a személyes megszólításra, az inkluzív közeg biztosítására. Summary. Our study clarifies the concepts of inclusion and diversity based on domestic and international studies. We examine how diversity has become a feature of higher education, and the additional causes and consequences behind the focus of inclusivity. Our questionnaire study explored the extent to which the diverse group of students of the University of Pecs (N: 809) is involved in the university social and academic life, and whether those with social disadvantages show a difference in involvement. The results revealed that socially disadvantaged students are underrepresented in large university programmes, however, student colleges and other micro-communities are more able to address these students in a personal way and to provide an inclusive environment.

scholarly journals Academic Endowments in the United Kingdom – Do They Make a Difference?

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Aljosa Sestanovic ◽  
Fayyaz Hussain Qureshi ◽  
Sarwar Khawaja
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Education System ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Education Data ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Uk Higher Education

This paper analyses the role and significance of the endowments for the UK higher education system. We have systematised the metrics commonly used to measure the performance of the academic endowments. To collect the data about universities and colleges, we exploited the data provided by the HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency) that collect and disseminate UK higher education data and the data provided by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. The size of the university and colleges endowments is valued using their respective financial statements, using endowment reserve account of the balance sheet.The academic endowments linked with the UK universities and colleges are estimated to be worth £15.8 billion in 2020. According to the number of the endowments linked with universities and colleges endowments, they play a significant role in the UK higher education system. However, there is a notable difference concerning endowment size between the few most reputable academic institutions and other universities and colleges. For example, the two largest endowments (the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge with accompanied colleges endowments) in 2020 had a share of 75% measured by the size of the endowment assets. Moreover, this 75% has been stable during the last several years.In addition, the UK academic endowments are much smaller than their US counterparts and thus generally have lesser significance for the UK higher education system, while they may play a significant role for particular institutions. The endowment size per student has also been much smaller in the UK than in the US. Except for the six universities and colleges, the share of the income coming from endowments and donations in the total income has been relatively low, 2% or less. Considering the long history and tradition of the endowments in England, their role in the UK higher education system is deeply rooted. However, with their historical performance and significance for some higher education providers, there is an opportunity for a more prominent role in the future.

scholarly journals Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 70-81
Author(s):  
Aranka Varga ◽  
Kitti Vitéz ◽  
István Orsós ◽  
Bálint Fodor ◽  
Gergely Horváth
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Disadvantaged Students ◽  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Socially Disadvantaged ◽  
The University ◽  
Inclusion And Diversity

Our study clarifies the concepts of inclusion and diversity based on domestic and international studies. We examine how diversity has become a feature of higher education, and the additional causes and consequences behind the focus of inclusivity. Our questionnaire study explored the extent to which the diverse group of students of the University of Pécs (N: 809) is involved in the university social and academic life, and whether those with social disadvantages show a difference in involvement. The results revealed that socially disadvantaged students are underrepresented in large university programmes, however, student colleges and other micro-communities are more able to address these students in a personal way and to provide an inclusive environment.

scholarly journals Uwarunkowania wprowadzania programów naprawczych w publicznych szkołach wyższych

2014 ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Pisarska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Central Statistical Office ◽  
The University ◽  
Financial Balance ◽  
Core Activity

Universities and colleges prepare financial plans that are their budgets, and are obliged to control the costs, revenues and financial results. This study presents the determinants of preparing reorganization programmes leading to financial balance in public higher education institutions. The authors examined public universities, divided into 10 groups according to the method used by Central Statistical Office in Poland. The paper presents analysis of costs, revenues and financial results of the universities for the years 2007–2011. The analysis of basic dimensions of the universities’ activeness, with special emphasis on the educational and scientific dimension as well as associated with the development of the economic/local community, revealed the problem of too high costs or achieving too low earnings. On one hand, this is probably due to too small expenditures on higher education, on the other hand, because of ineffective use of the university resources. If there is no strict supervision over the level of costs of basic tasks carried out by universities, introducing a recovery programme may, in the future, concern most public universities. It will happen if their core activity (mainly educational) is not brought to balance between revenue and costs.

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